Weekend this & that, BiblioMania

 

On Saturday I went to Bibliomania near Odeon again. It’s on today till 6 pm.

Always a good place for visual inspiration

You can never have too much inspiration

Or too much French Art Deco 30’s graphics in my opinion 

I kept seeing complimentary 

Red/green color combinations, 

Just like the palette 🎨 Van Gogh was using. 

This morning I discovered a fun video. You can take a walk vicariously around Auvers-sur-Oise 

An enchanting (red/green) so Frenchy sketch at Bibliomania 

And an artist’s sketchbook caught my eye. Looks like the artist was still sketching fresh doodles in colored pencil ✏️ Why didn’t I ask the dealer to take it out of the case 🙄 Maybe I’ll go back today…

After Bibliomania I popped into chocolatier Patrick Roger just for a Halloween 🎃 browse. I was captivated by the life-size solid chocolate shark. Just browsing ☺️

On Friday I took my sister (in red bib) to lunch at Le Crabe 🦀Marteau She loved it. I tried to stop her eating the crab-shaped sugar cube. Too late ☺️

The French are crazy for shaped-sugar cubes like these made by Can A Suc. Have you noticed? They’re fun to collect. Not so much to eat…

After lunch, I went to a 30’s photography show of Boris Lipnitzki a photographer I’d never heard of, yet I’ve seen many of his celebrity photographs. 

At Galerie Roger Viollet, 

Gare de Lyon,1937 by Boris Lipnitzki. Roger Viollet is renown for its huge (6 million images) archival photographs of Parisian & French history.

Chanel always gets in the picture. I didn’t know Lipnitzki took this famous shot.

He took portraits of many top Paris designers including Balenciaga. Very good at subtly capturing elegance and personality without the distraction of color film

Brigitte Bardot/BB as a young ballerina, caught by chance, her stary future unknown.

Do you read the comments PBers? Thanks to a very smart reader I learned, “The beautifully done photo featuring the young Bardot is actually an homage of a famous Edgar Degas work titled "Waiting." Beautiful!”

Escaping into the past. Sometimes an escape is necessary.

A French sock company recently copied/escaped with my Eiffel Tower - Cats Letters (design from 2020) minus birds. They’re selling in a tourist shop on rue Bellechasse near musée d’Orsay. 

I better get a pair fast before they sell out 🤣 

The view was out Solli’s window, so I we both sue!?

Meanwhile the swirling Automne leaves 🍁 October letter has not been going so well 🤔

With all the talk of coffee cups, the wheels got turning. Out walking to la Poste 📬…I thought why not do Paris cafe coffee cups ☕️? Back to the drawing board & maybe visit some cafes?

                    

What’s your favorite Paris café? Do tell 🙏                              

   ❤️THANK YOU PBers again for the kind cups of Ko-Fi❤️          

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